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Wanting Quotes (page 72)

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear. Joss Whedon
Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear. Doug Coupland
He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually. Voltaire
As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed. Charles de Lint
Sherman Alexie quote: "Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want..."
Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play. Sherman Alexie
It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK? (Getting Control of the Frontier, Gainsville Sun, March 22, 1995) Molly Ivins
You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real. Bruce Springsteen
He [Ranger] stopped in front of my parents' house, and we both looked to the door. My mother and my grandmother were standing there, watching us."I'm not sure I feel comfortable about the way your grandma looks at me," Ranger said.[Stephanie] "She wants to see you naked."I wish you hadn't told me that, babe."Everyone I know wants to see you naked."And you?"Never crossed my mind." I held my breath when I said it, and I hoped God wouldn't stike me down dead for lying. Janet Evanovich
Nicole Richie quote: "You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want..."
You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it; it doesn't deserve you anyways. Nicole Richie
George R. R. Martin quote: "I do not want to have a dozen sons. I want to have ADVENTURES."
I do not want to have a dozen sons. I want to have ADVENTURES. George R. R. Martin
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. Jeanette Winterson
George R. R. Martin quote: "Robert wanted to be loved. My brother Tyrion has the same..."
Robert wanted to be loved. My brother Tyrion has the same disease. Do you want to be loved, Sansa? George R. R. Martin
Margaret Thatcher quote: "If you want something spoken about, ask a man. If you want..."
If you want something spoken about, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher
I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep. None of it has anything to do with you. It's just that I don't know what to do now. You must be thinking what a rotten person I am. Well, believe me, I'm thinking the same thing. I don't know how this happened or why. Maybe I can get over it. Do you think you can wait—because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you … not ever … Judy Blume
You don't want some tacky Vegas fly-by. You're serious. You're serious about friendships, about your work, your family. You're serious about Star Wars, and you active dislike of Jar Jar Binks---"Well, God. Come on, anyone who---"You're serious," she continued before he went on a Jar Jar rant, "about living your life on your terms, and being easygoing doesn't negate that one bit. You're serious about what kind of kryptonite is more lethal to Superman."You have to go with the classic green.... Nora Roberts

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